INEC Set For Restructuring Says Jega

INEC has started the restructuring and reorganisation of its workforce for efficient and effective delivery on the electoral process, its National Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said.
Jega, who made this known on Sunday in Abuja, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) it also planned to put in place a workforce that could keep on giving its best and making enormous sacrifices both for INEC and for the country.
He said in the next two months the exercise would be completed resulting in actualising the vision of having the best election management body in Africa.
Jega said the exercise was being handled by some of the best management consulting firms.
“The problem is that in Nigeria anytime you talk about restructuring and reorganisation people think you are talking about retrenchment; it needs not be so.
“In INEC our restructuring and reorganisation is not synonymous with retrenchment. We are doing everything possible to bring efficiency and effectiveness and it can be done without the kind of massive retrenchment that people fear and expect.
“We also need to motivate people so a lot of the reform efforts we are trying to bring has to do with what levels of motivation and adjustments in the conditions of service.
“In a matter of a month, maximum two months, we will have the kind of restructuring and reorganisation that we would be pleased with in terms of actualising that vision of having the best election management body in Africa.’’